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Past Magazine Stories

Below are stories from past issues of Columban Mission magazine. The Columban Fathers publish Columban Mission magazine eight times a year. Subscriptions are available for just $15 per year. Sign up to receive our next issue. Read more about Columban Mission magazine.

 

November 2018

As the Columban Centennial Year draws to a close, and as we prepare to embark on a new century of mission, I am reminded of how the Catholic Church engaged a significant…

November 2018

The man had never walked. From birth, he was unable to put his two feet under him, but that didn't stop him from going out and joining the crowd that had gathered to hear…

November 2018

Allow me to share with you my one-of-a-kind, exciting and meaningful adventure. I am just an ordinary, simple woman. I was a teacher by profession.

October 2018

I met Raj, a Sri Lankan Hindu asylum seeker, about nine years ago at the the Solihull Welcome drop-in center for asylum seekers when I was attending the home office…

October 2018

I always enjoy returning to my home parish of St. Joseph's, New Plymouth, in New Zealand over the Christmas period.

October 2018

The preaching of Jesus and His compassion for the poor and the outcasts was at the heart of the Kingdom of God.

October 2018

If the Philippines have the Chocolate Hills in Bohol, here in the north of Chile we have mountains of "chocolates," no green trees, just all brown soil.

October 2018

A faith born in the shadows cast by a single candle in a tightly curtained room of a small farming village in a China emerging from the repression of the Cultural…

October 2018

I first met Amy from the Philippines after she was brought to the Hope Workers' Center in Taiwan.

October 2018

Not long ago I dared to follow a so called "dream," a dream that became reality when one day I found myself in a place different from my home.

October 2018

When I was ordained a deacon and later a priest, I worked with young people in one parish in the Philippines.

October 2018

God is always leading us in every step of our journey. But there are times that we do not recognize His presence because of situations that separate us from Him.